Scrum Master

Role: Scrum master

Location: Culver city, CA

Job Responsibilities:

•        Guides and coaches the Scrum (or other Agile framework) Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products

and services to our customers.

•        Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development

techniques.

•        Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.

•        Coaches the Scrum team in self¬organization, cross¬functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and

externally working within the Scrum team.

•        Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational

project or product teams.

•        Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

•        Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.

•        Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.

•        Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

•        Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important

department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.

Qualifications

•        Expertise as an Agile trainer / educator

•        Ability to influence a wide range of people, including people who are resistant to change and/or apathetic

•        Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles

•        JIRA experience, ideally as an administrator

•        Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills

•        Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e., Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in[1]depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices

•        Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques

•        Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery team

•        Bachelor's degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team

or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

•        Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation technique

•        Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel

•        Technical knowledge of various systems (technology).

•        Bachelor's degree required.

•        CSM or SAFe certification preferred.